34 Retro Photoshop Tutorials for Skills Improvement

Photoshop is one of the most used graphic editing program all over the world. It’s popularity has increased a lot, being used by tens of thousands of designers, creative persons, or just novices that try to overhelm this incredible software. With other graphic competitors from Adobe Inc, such as Fireworks and Illustrator – the Adobe Photoshop program is surely the leading one. In the round-up below, we have compiled more than 30 stunning retro tutorials that can not only be created for skills improvement but can also serve as a source of inspiration.

Create a Retro Pop Style Wallpaper

This tutorial shows how to create a beautiful, vibrant, retro-pop abstract wallpaper. Along with this, you’ll also learn how to add a wonderful texture to your design and make some abstract shapes

Design a 3D Retro Strip

This quite simple but stunning tutorials, shows you how to create some simple but effective 3D objects that can POP your layout. The tutorial also shows how to create a beautiful layout with the help of those 3D shapes.

This tutorial shows you how to create a retro sunflower poster in Photoshop. The tutorial also contains tehniques on using brushes, multiple images and different blending modes.

Mix Cool Retro Curves into Your Photographs

The current beautiful and stunning tutorials will show you some tehniques of playing with colors and geometric shapes inside your photos!

Design some Retro Stars in Photoshop

This tutorial shows how to create a very cool retro effect that can be used on groovy templates or just on oldschool layouts.

Design a Scene with a Muscle Car and Hot Chick

This tutorial shows how to turn an image of a Muscle Car and a picture of a hot chick and transform it into one cool retro postcard design. The tutorial is teaching some brush, texture and layer techniques as well.

Craft a Vintage Fifties letter

This tutorial shows how to create a fifties love letter with stamps, bent corener, and a retro border using the brush engine, rectangle tool, layer styles, blend modes and other intermediate techniques.

Create Burnt Parchment from Scratch

This beautiful and stunning photoshop tutorial shows you how to give retro-style graphics to your own modern-day spin.

Creating an Awesome Retro Collage

This complex and long tutorial teaches how to make an abstract photo collage. It contains a lot of images with exciting stunning effects. You’ll be using different blend modes, filters and some advanced adjustment layer techniques.

Creating a Stunning Old World Look in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you are going to create a sort of old-worldy composition featuring a compass and making use of some awesome vector artwork.

Creating a Space Helmeted Future Retro Illustration

This intermediary but awesome and stunning tutorial teaches how to make a beautiful and vintage illustration just in photoshop.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to design a poster for an 80′s anthem party. Throughout this tutorial, you will create some textures for background, manipulate a photo to give it a stylish lok, and make some some color variations.

Design a Vintage Car Poster with Grunge Texture

This tutorial will show you the processes involved in making an old-looking, vintage car poster with grunge texture, font and brushset in photoshop.

Design an Old Style Safari Map

This tutorial will teach you how to create an old-school safari map, using a range of Photoshop techniques. The tutorial explores some basic photo manipulation and blending techniques.

This tutorial will teach you how to recreate the Retro Cosmic designs. All you need is a copy of Photoshop and some time on your hands. In this particular example you’re going to create a retro cosmic rainbow but the techniques explained can be used in combination with any shape and colour.